“We all have our limits. And we set them further out than we have any right.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Lews Therin Telamon
(15 October 1993)
Republican Univision Debate, December 9, 2007 http://migramatters.blogspot.com/2007/12/republican-univision-debate-transcript.html
“We all have our limits. And we set them further out than we have any right.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Lews Therin Telamon
(15 October 1993)
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Speech on the floor of the US Senate in which he opposed raising the US debt limit. (16 March 2006)
2006
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 3.
Hendrik Verwoerd (1901–1966) Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination in 1966
Verwoerd in 1963, as quoted and translated by J. J. Venter in H.F. Verwoerd: Foundational aspects of his thought, Koers 64(4) 1999: 415–442
“When there are no ceilings, the sky's the limit.”
Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), 2016 Democratic National Convention (July 28, 2016)
Context: Tonight, we've reached a milestone in our nation's march toward a more perfect union: the first time that a major party has nominated a woman for President. Standing here as my mother's daughter, and my daughter's mother, I'm so happy this day has come. Happy for grandmothers and little girls and everyone in between. Happy for boys and men, too – because when any barrier falls in America, for anyone, it clears the way for everyone. When there are no ceilings, the sky's the limit. So let's keep going, until every one of the 161 million women and girls across America has the opportunity she deserves. Because even more important than the history we make tonight, is the history we will write together in the years ahead. Let's begin with what we're going to do to help working people in our country get ahead and stay ahead.
Laraine Day (1920–2007) American actress
The New York Times, "A Conversaton with Laraine Day, Hollywood's Girl Next Door", June 9, 1984.
Charles Perrow (1925–2019) American sociologist
Source: 1970s, "The short and glorious history of organizational theory", 1973, p. 13
Betsy DeVos (1958) 11th United States Secretary of Education
in Roll Call, 1997 BETSY DEVOS, TRUMP’S BIG-DONOR EDUCATION SECRETARY http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/betsy-devos-trumps-big-donor-education-secretary, The New Yorker (November 23, 2016)